Academy of Art University, Photography Online Part of a growing trend in online higher education, this San Francisco-based art school offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in photography. True to the nature of this new way of teaching and learning, class outlines include hardware and software requirements, video introductions from teachers and links to their personal websites. 

Luminous-Lint Luminous-Lint is the result of one man’s laudable mission to get us all involved in the creation of “the world’s leading collaborative knowledge-base for the history of photography,” and that knowledge-base includes a wealth of material for self-instruction. Information in this complex but very user-friendly site, is organized by searchable sections that include themes, photographers, techniques, galleries and dealers, as well as times lines. Luminous-Lint makes very good use of the web’s elastic nature: each link in these sections unfolds into an amazingly rich page of historical and practical information, closely connected with other pages - including eclectic photo galleries - in order to give the most complete picture possible. The most original feature of Luminous-Lint is its very personal and direct requests for input; the site is dotted with areas for feedback and ways to get involved in building the content. The interactive nature of the site, somewhat like a Wikipedia for the history of photography, opens the door to an original and more comprehensive way of researching and displaying photographic history. 

Photo Seminars Referring to its site as a campus, Photo Seminars has fashioned itself as an online school of photography, offering workshops and seminars (some of them free) on a wide range of topics for beginners to professionals.  

School of Photography This online photography school specializes in tutor-directed, correspondence-style classes. It offers a page of free photo articles and tips that cover many types of photography as well as addressing many practical concerns of the craft.  

Seeing is Believing Although it does not address photography per se, this Canadian site has a lot to say about the ability of images to affect social justice. Seeing is Believing is a project that takes a creative approach to media literacy and human rights education. Among the teaching tools offered is the Teacher’s E-Zine, a series of lesson plans (in PDF format) designed to sensitize students to the power, both positive and negative, of visual media to document a situation and to bring about change.